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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,342,904 ratings — published 2011
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 78,900 ratings — published 2010
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 496,344 ratings — published 1988
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 20,936 ratings — published 1952
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 35,514 ratings — published 1961
The Republic (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 232,674 ratings — published -400
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 622,724 ratings — published 2011
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 41,407 ratings — published 1968
Cruel Optimism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,507 ratings — published 2011
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 23,196 ratings — published 1748
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 24,754 ratings — published 1967
Meditations on First Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 31,037 ratings — published 1641
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 42,263 ratings — published 1985
Orientalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 31,801 ratings — published 1978
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 25,860 ratings — published 1988
Distinction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 3,822 ratings — published 1979
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 38,850 ratings — published 1975
Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.28 — 2,685 ratings — published 2020
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 45,305 ratings — published 2009
The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 9,242 ratings — published 1953
The Second Sex (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 49,801 ratings — published 1949
The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,520 ratings — published 1970
Mastery (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 51,924 ratings — published 2012
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 344,221 ratings — published 2012
Rock My Religion: Writings and Art Projects, 1965-1990 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 18 ratings — published 1993
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
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avg rating 4.13 — 48,031 ratings — published -400
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 84,781 ratings — published 2019
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 185,742 ratings — published 2019
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 604,003 ratings — published -500
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 476,370 ratings — published 1997
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 297,710 ratings — published 2015
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 24,148 ratings — published 2014
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 20,814 ratings — published 1917
What Is to Be Done? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 6,178 ratings — published 1902
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 580,911 ratings — published 2012
The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 3,516 ratings — published 2008
The Social Contract (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 60,783 ratings — published 1762
Philosophical Investigations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 16,303 ratings — published 1953
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 212,595 ratings — published 1848
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 64,183 ratings — published -350
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 831,219 ratings — published 2016
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 8,572 ratings — published 2008
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 952,027 ratings — published 1946
Mythologies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 17,794 ratings — published 1957
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 14,960 ratings — published 1977
Economics: The User's Guide (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 8,902 ratings — published 2014
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 104,586 ratings — published 1999
Great Books of the Western World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 264 ratings — published 1952
Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 44,849 ratings — published 1781
Manifiesto Contra-Sexual
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,708 ratings — published 2000
“He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.”
― The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
― The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
“...childbirth is at best necessary and tolerable. It is not fun.
(Like shitting a pumpkin, a friend of mine told me when I inquired about the Great-Experience-You-Are-Missing.)”
― The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
(Like shitting a pumpkin, a friend of mine told me when I inquired about the Great-Experience-You-Are-Missing.)”
― The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution